Chapter 49

Chapter 49

When Liu Mang arrived at the restaurant, his teammates had already arrived, but most of them still looked awake.

However, two people looked very sober, but their faces were filled with sadness.

These two people are the team's first and second point guards Dean Grove and Jacqui Vaughn.

"Nazir, what's wrong with the two of them?" Liu Mang asked while picking up vegetables and oil-free fried eggs from the buffet.

"Tonight they are going to play against Payton. Most of the team's guards are similar to them when they meet Payton." Muhammad replied.

Peyton.

Gary Payton!

Depend on!

Only then did Liu Mang remember that today's opponent is the Supersonic Speed! The Sonics with trash talker Gary Payton!

Gary Payton is not only good at trash talking, but also super strong. As of last season, he has been selected to the first team of the best defensive team for eight consecutive seasons, and he has been selected to the second team of the best team for eight consecutive years! Also won the best defensive player! And the highest was ranked second in the MVP rankings!

Payton, who is 33 years old this year, is still strong. He averaged 22 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists in the first 6 games.

This is not comparable to Francis and his ilk! Even really speaking, Iverson is not as scary as Payton!

Francis has already tortured the Eagles' back line to death. Iverson has already beaten the Eagles to death just because of his strong offensive end. Come on Payton...

At this time, Liu Mang saw Coach Kruger who came to have lunch, and immediately put down the plate in his hand and ran over.

"Coach! Coach!"

Liu Mang showed a faster speed than when triggering the pick-and-roll master and the bench gangster, which shocked Coach Kruger!

"What's wrong with Ace?" Coach Kruger asked strangely.

"Coach, I've decided. I'm going to switch to shooting guard! Scoring is what I want to pursue!" Liu Mang said solemnly.

The restaurant is only that big, Liu Mang's voice is not low, everyone can hear it.

The teammates were puzzled at first, how good it is to play point guard! Especially the point guard who can fire unlimitedly, the Eagles only has Liu Mang.

But thinking of today's opponent, everyone realized that this rookie was as shameless as people said!

The two point guards, Dean Grove and Jacques Vaughan, even sprayed rice directly. Is there such an operation?

Coach Kruger was also puzzled at the beginning, why did he suddenly want to play shooting guard? What is the difference between Liu Mang's style of play as a shooting guard and a point guard? Isn't it just holding the ball and doing it?

However, as the team members sputtered, Coach Kruger immediately realized that he was as speechless as he could be.

Coach Kruger helped his forehead helplessly, and replied: "Yes, when you partner with Emmanuel or Jason, they play point guard, you play shooting guard, and the tactics remain the same."

Oye! Liu Mang didn't expect the coach to be so easy to talk to... Wait, Qiaodou sack, Shengang Mani, Waite, Gast, a certain ment... It seems...it doesn't make any difference whether you change positions or not!

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Think about how great it would be for the alliance to hold together in the future! Most teams don't even have a decent star. When a strong team beats a weak team, the strong team's substitute can look like a superstar. Unlike now, the teams that are vying for the No. 1 pick all have the Rockets' Francis , Jaylen Rose of the Bulls, Nick Van Exel of the Nuggets, Juwan Howard and other stars.

Seeing the muscular Payton, Liu Mang really wanted to go up and say to him: Brother, you’d better go to the Lakers to hug your thighs this year, or you won’t be able to lift your thighs in two years, and you’ll have to go to the Heat to keep drinking water in 2006 It's time.

After the game started, Liu Mang continued to play as a substitute without any suspense. Even if he was the point guard with the best performance and statistics on the team, he was still a substitute.

Whether it is Coach Kruger or Liu Mang, they are very firm on this point!

Looking at the point guard who never stopped talking on the court, the point guard who abused the Eagles on the offensive end, and the Payton who defended Jason Terry so confusingly on the defensive end, Liu Mang really saw that both offensive and defensive ends are superstars, Even if Payton is 33 years old, he is still at the tail end of his peak. There is no problem in being selected for the best team and the best defensive team this year.

Supersonic speed is really strong!

Except for the 98-99 season because their super power forward Wen Baker became a pig because of the lockout, excessive drinking and overweight, which led to the shrinking season and did not make the playoffs. - reached the finals in the 1996 season.

Although the Supersonics are not as strong as the strongest team in the Western Conference before the lockout, they are still a strong team. Don't look at the Eagles who are now number one in the league. They have no advantage against the Supersonics. The offense takes all the shots.

Brent Barry, who can also fly for white people, Vladimir Radmanovich, the skier of the Lakers in the future, and Rashad Lewis, the billionaire man of the Magic in the future.

Three tall pitchers with a three-point shooting rate of more than 40% shot through the Eagles.

However, the Supersonics did not have the strength to defeat the Eagles all at once.

Teams such as the Eagles and the Sonics are not weak, and have some strengths, but they are not the strongest team.

The Supersonics are terribly accurate on the outside, and the Eagles have a great advantage inside. Vin Baker was a super power forward at the best lineup level back then, and a lockout ruined him. Scoring two points on the hook is a disaster on the defensive end and rebounding end. Let alone Rashard Lewis, he has no strengths other than shooting. I don’t know why the Supersonics were poor in the 06-07 season and selected Durant. In the season, he averaged 22 points and 5 rebounds per game and got a 100 million yuan contract from the Magic. It can only be said that the management of the Magic team is always so commendable.

The Eagles have three strong players in the frontcourt: Ratliff, Mohamed, and Raheem. Raheem is also a super forward swingman averaging 23 points and 10 rebounds per game, blasting the Sonics inside to scum.

So even though the Supersonics were surprisingly accurate from outside today, they still failed to open the score at the beginning. In the eighth minute of the first quarter, the Eagles called a timeout. The Supersonics only led the Eagles by 4 points 21 to 17.

For Liu Mang, this is the last thing he wants to see, anxious! In other words, those players who entered the NBA in the 1980s and 1990s would never rest!

Don't look at Gary Payton is 33 years old this year, but his average playing time this season has reached a career high! He averaged 43 minutes per game. Last season, the 32-year-old averaged 42 minutes per game. Even if he reduces his playing time in the middle and late stages after the game this year, it is estimated that he will continue to break the mark of 40 minutes per game.

"Ace, you go up and shoot! Open up the space and give Sharif a better chance to score inside! Jason, you cover for Ace, and use your offensive threat to take the defense away..." Coach Kruger spit Xingzi straight fly.

Liu Mang is very painful. Sure enough, the team is about to die in this kind of anxious game, so the Supersonic side probably also dies!

"System, draw a lottery! The rogue is worth ten lottery draws!!"